Jill's week 9 commentary

This has been an extremely busy and productive week. Earlier in the week, we had been reinspired as we begun our visioning process. We were eager to manipulate our ideas and the importance of each implementation for our design. I drew up some conceptual pictures for each vision that we created, which seemed to help our group have a common understanding. Ben also drew some pictures that captured ideas for how our project would work on the screen. Though these pictures might seem like the interface, we look at them as the physical space on our working space-- the desktop. We each contributed to the storyboarding process by drawing different sequences of events that may occur.
During class on Thursday, we met up with one of the TAs for guidance. We showed her what we have already accomplished and explained to her what we intend to do next. She gave us specific advice on what to focus on and to clarify, but in general it seemed like she approved our status of this project's timeline. Maybe she was being extra nice, but I feel like it was exactly what our group needed-- to be reassured that we were along the right track. She offered to let us practice our presentation with her before the real thing, which I think will be beneficial to us.
Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the last two meetings because I needed to go home for the weekend, but I am excited to see the progress that my team had made this weekend. I know we are trying to fill in the gaps of what we are missing, and I was told that we made significant progress on the UED. We have planned to meet everyday this week to finalize our presentation and begin the write-up of our paper.